2-Letter Words Starting with A

Ventilate with tune (wordplay)

Clothes dryer (wordplay)

Natural gas (wordplay)

Gulf VIP (var.)

Mideast big shot (var.)

Middle Eastern chief (Var.)

Of golf (wordplay)

A friend indeed!

Abettor's partner (wordplay)

One with a sight (wordplay)

One seeing the sights (wordplay)

One doing sight seeing (wordplay)

Radio station say

One sharing dirty laundry (wordplay)

One putting on a show (wordplay)

A draft horse

Prison in commotion (wordplay)

Up and about - is art (anagram)

Out from under the covers

Resident (in Tarrytown?)

Job, for one

One who endures

More in need of Bengay, say

Needing more kneading, maybe

More flu-like, say

""Relating to a sacklike division of a gland, also ACINOSE, ACINIC, ACINOUS""

More ethereal

Concern (maybe extra-marital?)

Liaison with a French blonde (wordplay)

Romantic relationship, perhaps illicit

More open, perhaps

With better circulation

Not so close

One making adjustments

Big name in campers

One who straightens

Upas tree gum resin.

Upas tree poison

Arrow poison

Having less rainfall (var.)

One's added in the saddle

More dry and hot

More stylized, maybe

More creative, perhaps

More drawn to galleries, perhaps

Nearer a volcanic eruption, perhaps

Closer to an eruption, maybe

Not as ruddy

More biting

One who goes to court (wordplay)

One sending flowers, say

Secretive sort (wordplay)

ID saver (anagram)

Ann Landers, for one

What Harriman is to Truman.

One giving counsel (O, not E)

Commercial sun shade (wordplay)

Counsel of Ovid (ars horrendus)

One who {affixes=v}

Naysayer rustically

Naysayer rustically

One transferring property variable

One transferring property Var.

One who transfers property

One from whom property is transferred

Transferor of property.

Surveyor's instrument

Surveyor's device

Mechanic, at times

More across (wordplay)

More of this across (wordplay)

More than one across (wordplay)

Opposed to cars

Fighting against fighting, say

Conflicting with conflict (wordplay)

Type of protest

More likely to fidget, say

Nastier stranger is more impatient

More prone to fidgeting

One who puts something on (to surface)

One who puts (a substance) on surface

Makeup kit item

Geological formation containing water

Water-bearing stratum of permeable rock

It's often comprised of sandstone

Like a witness who's quite nervous

Trembling, if born in 1650

Shaking some projectiles

Beef inspector (wordplay)

Umpire, for one

Ruling party (wordplay)

Squire, as for Galahad

One entitled to bear heraldic arms

Squire carrying the armor of a knight

One who has it made

One who's just gotten in

One who shows up

More pretentious, perhaps

With more aesthetic pretension

Affected to a greater degree

Person with goals

One with hopes

He has high hopes

Art studio / Amazon, for one (hyph.)

Where one might find oils (wordplay)

Oil production site (wordplay)

One who keeps work in balance (wordplay)

Reviewer of books (wordplay)

One has a checkered career (wordplay)

Smilin' Jack, for one

Lindbergh, for one

One up (wordplay)

One using a bypass, maybe

One playing hooky, for example

One who shuns

Expectant one.

Attendant

Watcher.

Vein, nerve or feather

Pertaining to the armpit

Pertaining to the armpit.

Place for croaking animals (wordplay)

Place for neat disposal (wordplay)

I tar boat (anagram)

Reader's Digest staffer

One who makes short work of a link with ringleader

Person who curtails a game of cards with king

Vie! Reach! Perhaps become the winner

One who accomplishes or reaches goal

He gets things done

A mail shot has no right to be sharp

Needle-shaped.

One who gains something

One who tells all.

More crafty or skillful

With more skill

More skillful

One to declare that it's fixed in the fare

One stirring up (things)

A good mixer, maybe, but a trouble-maker

A good mixer, maybe, but a troublemaker

Visible in the dark, as fireflies

Like stars on a clear night

Arm and leg I'm breaking with a twinkle

Sparkling silver? Rubbish!

Sparkling silver rubbish

Silver on recent issue, sparkling

Member of the jet set (wordplay)

. . . flying boat (wordplay)

Irish in a ship or 747 (wordplay)

Inspirer

Vivifier.

Walt Disney, perhaps (wordplay)

Ralph Bakshi, for one

Cel-ist (wordplay)

Priest's role during Extreme Unction

One doing the consecrating

Holy-oil sprinkler

Nearer the front; prior (to)

Front-facing, anatomically

In the front

One shopping for old curios

Additive type in oil & grease

One who'll fill you in

""One who informs, also APPRISER""

Polemic

Certain critic's seat (wordplay)

Quarterback's spot (wordplay)

Athlete's place (wordplay)

He mugged a sailor, they say

One on the attack

One casting aspersions

Professor, at times

Professor, re homework

One transferring property rights, in law

Property transferor

One who nominates a southern Italian gentleman

Help when family member needed

One who helps because she's related

Right-hand man.

Lawyer's aide

Supportive one

Item on a vanity, perhaps

Perfume delivery option

Item on milady's dresser

Achiever of a goal.

One who got it

Goal getter

All keyed up and telling folks about it

1959 John Wayne western

Nervously excited

Auntly

Pertaining to birds

One who navigates aircraft

Edward VIII in 1936

He's giving up

King Edward VIII, for example

Abraham Lincoln, notably

Lincoln, notably

A throwback by literary cameraman chopping wood - one wielding axe

Seat in bar maybe not his (wordplay)

No little 21 across for one

Who's abandoned seat in bar (wordplay)

A hawk

Hawk shows caprice flying - the thing must be caught

Applauder

""A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc.""

One letting go

Turn-on (wordplay)

Chemical catalyst

Catalyst

""A synthetic purine nucleoside analog, C 8 H 10 N 5 O 3 , derived from guanine and used in the treatment of herpes simplex, herpes zoster, and varicella zoster virus infections.""

Poor diplomat, say

Family outcast, perhaps

One causing estrangement

Creature seen later (wordplay)

Pogo's pal Albert, for one

Florida snapper (wordplay)

A giver of alms.

Changeover time in the cockpit

Parachutist's device

It measures height above sea level

Device used to increase sound

Device to boost sound levels

Part of a plane detector.

ANCIENT an aged man

ANIMAL a living organism with voluntary motion and sensation

Part of church; anchorite (anagram)

Part of a church

Area in church; icon heart anag.

Union-busting, say

Opposed to the union, say

Don't be this tomorrow

Stealthy (wordplay)

Like some hard-to-detect missiles

Opposite the sun

TUMOR an abnormal swelling

""ULCER to affect with a type of lesion, also ULCERATE""

""Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.""

An early form of fuel (wordplay)

Cook prepares it right away, perhaps

Hors d'oeuvre

Eats before dinner (wordplay)

Clams on the half shell, perhaps

Hors d'oeuvre

Vintage-vehicle valuation expert

Art expert, at times

Extoller of a news agency's virtues (wordplay)

Pertaining to the joints

Pertaining to joints

Relating to a joint

Mechanic in the armed forces

A terrific oily mechanic

A terrific construction worker

Medical device removing fluid

Suction pump.

Suction pump

Loss of civil rights.

Loss of all civil rights, in law

Get the German punishment for treason

Cur Laura and I stupidly told privately

French composer's universal god of the ear

One hates to see Robin with wingless Batman, struggling to apprehend ring

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.

One who acquires.

Manage publicity for one in church

Run as 'today's politician' (wordplay)

Pastor who pitches (wordplay)

One who admonishes.

One publicising a product (S, not Z)

He pays the price of publicity

He has his own ideas on hoarding

""One who, or that which, alleviaties.""

""A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in c\'best. c\'best.""

Powerful drug-treatment class

Like chemotherapy drugs

HUNTER one who {hunts=v}

LITTER to scatter rubbish about

Something from nothing (wordplay)

Family subject (wordplay)

Family subject?

MERGER the combining of two or more businesses into one

SMOKER one who {smokes=v}

One who makes an apology; an apologist.

Nail polish brush, for example

Cosmetician's device.

Device used as a swab.

AQUATINT to etch using a certain process

Same as arbitrageur.arbitrageur.

Grieve or Dascoli

Independent settler of dispute

Person authorized to decide a dispute.

Of or pertaining to an arteriole.

One with lots to offer (wordplay)

One has lots to shift!

Man with lots on his mind (wordplay)

Alexander Graham Bell invention

Otologist's instrument

Otology instrument

Granter of a privilege.

One who sanctions an action

Creator of short sentences (wordplay)

An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays.

He has decisive qualities

Settler of disagreement

Arbitrator

""One who aggrandizes, or makes great.""

""An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.""

""One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.""

One who ameliorates.

""One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator. as, a fire annihilator.""

""One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.""

BURGLAR to enter a building to steal

Expectant one.

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

POPULAR something pleasing

Antitrust

One who values

Exploiter of market differences

Exploiter of stock market differences

Trader offers designer's latest little piece with passion in a very old city

""One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering. (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.""

ASSIMILATE To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

""ACCLIMATIZE To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.""

One who accomplishes.

""ALPHABETIZE To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words. as, to alphabetize a list of words.""

Large oval stadium with tiers

Hollywood Bowl, for example

ANTHOLOGIZE compile an anthology.

CONSUMER one who {consumes=v}

Non-PC chair protector (wordplay)

Chair cover mascara stain made a mess of

Protective cloth on upholstered seat

PREDATOR one that {plunders=v}

TAKEOVER the act of assuming control

Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate.

One liberates all but last of fit soldiers

An assassin.

Runner or dramatist in play

One managing business affairs

Overseer of a sort

German dog in fine French spa, barking

Antiforeign

""AUTHENTICATE To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.""

""FILIBUSTER A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.""

TUBERCULAR Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

Writer of their own life story